- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 22:04:30 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: david.laroche@nobug.lu, www-html@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: [snip] > What's your goal? Do you want the content to show up in browsers that > do not support <object> (not sure what those are; NS4 maybe?)? Then > what you have is correct (and yes, I know that does not validate). > > If you only care about browsers with <object> support, you can either > have only a single object element or two nested ones... The reason to do > nesting is that > > <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" /> > > Means "run the ActiveX control with ID > 'D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' on the data". How can one tell that the parameter to the object tag is trying to invoke an Active-X object ? Is there some central registry (not in the Microsoft sense of the word!) where such parameters are enumerated and classified ? If not, what is to prevent a browser from applying its own (totally idiosyncratic) interpretation to the parameter and interpreting it as anything that it chooses ? Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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